What constitutes a valuable life? Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, Handle with Care is an unforgettable novel about the fragility of life and the lengths we will go to protect it. What if Charlotte had known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom.
As the family struggles to make ends meet to cover Willow’s medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, funny as it seems, perfect. Handle With Care explores the knotty tangle of medical ethics and personal morality in the case of a disabled child and her mother’s attempt at providing care for the child. It is an excellent and engaging read that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. This novel is extremely well-written, well-paced and flowed smoothly. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. Handle with Care forces us to consider the multiple dimensions of some very difficult issues. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Dad said hed go to bat for me, and even though Mom was dead set against it - what if you smacked up against the thick plaster wall of the teacup - he convinced her that we could whirl around in circles with you wedged between us, so that you wouldnt get hurt. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance" (Stephen King). I absolutely loved this book I went into it not expecting it to be one of my favourite Jodi novels, but it became one. Jodi Picoult has a special gift for creating a believable situation and filling it with characters that made me smile and laugh and cry, grateful to have shared.
When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated-she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. A flawless, beautifully written book about 6 year old Willow - born with brittle bone disease and the family that love and adore her despite her endless ordeals.
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